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oommini„ ekme Anckews.
Kissed 300 Men
On Wedding Day
Geeing with aderiag eyes at
his lOVely bride-to-lee, the good-
Joeileing young pole remarked:
!Yarling, I lave you to (listen-
tinnA but how I wish you were
not quite so fond Of kissing other
Men. When we are Married, you
must give up the habit Or we'll
be constantly quarrelling,"
She looked at him quizzically
for a moment and nodded, Since
their engagement, he had twice
caught her kissing men at par-
ties. He had been tolerant about
It, knowing full well that she
loved him, but he felt that in
future her lips should be strictly
reserved for, him,
"It's just my friendly nature,
but I realize I Must stop being
so free with my kisses," she
sighed. "All right, dear, I prom-
ise that you will be the only
man I shall enjoy kissing after
we are married."
Her lover looked a little anxi-
ous when he heard those am-
biguous words. And he could
not help wondering how many
men would kiss her during the
hectic round of parties she would
be attending before their wed-
ding day a month hence.
As though reading his thoughts,
she said: "Let's make a bargain.
Let me kiss every man who at-
tends our wedding just once and
I'll never kiss any other man
but you for the rest of our mar-
ried life."
At first he wouldn't agree; but
she had her way in the end, af-
ter letting him kiss her with
great tenderness.
Then the bridegroom suddenly
realized that there would be at
least 300 men present at the
wedding reception, which had
been planned on a lavish scale.
And he had to go through the
ordeal of watching. while his
bride made the most of her
chances after the ceremony and
spent about an hour and a half
kissing the delighted male
guests.
It made matters worse when
he realized that several of the
men who were receiving long,
lingering kisses from the bride
Were her ex-boy friends, for she
bad been a great flirt, as he well
knew.
Since their wedding, however,
the wife, who is still only
twenty-eight, has kept her
promise and has allowed no one
but her husband to kiss her.
Large-scale kissing like that in
which she indulged is rare now-
adays, although at a kissing
competition held in the United
States some years ago a young
couple won the title of national
kissing champions by pressing
their lips together continuously
for six hours, thirty minutes.
Kissing, say the experts who
study it and its trends, was
never more popular than it is
to-day, although they allege
that the art of kissing is dying
Out. They point out that the
average young couple, although
they kiss more often and more
openly than did the couples of
fifty years ago, "lack finesse in
their osculation."
Who gave the first kiss, any-
way? Adam, undoubtedly. Mo-
dern Eves may like to know that
the old Romans studied kissing
as an art but kept it to the cheek
or forehead. They thought kiss-
ing on the mouth was vulgar!
Doctors say kissing can spread
the common cold. Some years
ago a Los Angeles woman com-
plained to a divorce judge that
she was being "starved" of
kisses by her husband, He had
not kissed her for two years, she
said, because he maintained that
kissing was not healthy. The
woman won a divorce.
When a doctor-psychologist
was asked to give his opinion
about good-night kisses between
teenagers, he said: "It's all right
for a girl to kiss a boy good-
night if she feels some real af-
fection and liking for him but
she should not treat kisses as
payment for a good night out,"
Kissing is more popular in Ja-
pan now than pre-war, but "all
who make amorous advances in
public" can still be sent to jail
for six months or fined $150.
?or years the traditional Japan-
ese art of love ignored the kids.
Coy glances arid sly phrases
were considered the best method
of love-making. The only actual
contact was the stroking of the
back of a woman's neck which
was considered quite proper be-
tween Rivers,
Sortie experts declare that
kissing is an aid to beauty. A
Ilollywbod snake-up Men says
kissing makes the toinplexibit
clearer, and the skin Mere Vel-
vety. Those who kiss have spark-
ling eyes at a result, he adds.
Kissing was once illegal
Virginia and New Jersey. In na-
tions where the kiss is accepted,
laws' vary greatly as to how and
Where it can be done legally.
For instance', a public kiss in
:Turin, Italy, once led to a fine
of $10. Iceland, has a law pre-
egleiting a inn fteen, kissing en
Other man's wife.
Drive With
queen Was Baldi
Does a lack of leeks stop you
from gettting the most out of
life? That was one of the ques-
tiOns discussed, when 90 scien
tists put their heads together
at the recent London conference
organized by the British Society
for Research on Ageing.
The scientists seemed agreed
that baldness may be curable in
five to ten years. But at least
one of them was certain that
a lack of crowning glory did not
hinder a man's advancement in
public or private life.
Some of the greatest lovers in
history were bald, So were some
of the world's most fascinating
women.
A famous baldy of ancient
times was Julius Caesar who,
however, was rather sensitive
about his condition and liked to
wear plenty of laurel leaves. But
he was a great ladies' man all
the same.
Charles II had many mistress-
es, but beneath that long, curly
black wig he was bald. Once
when coming in from hunting,
he went to his wife's apartment
to pay a duty call. On finding
it empty he sat down to rest.
Feeling hot after the chase, the
king removed his wig and went
to sleep.
When Queen Catherine return-
ed all she could see was a round
shining pate appearing above the
chair, Hearing deep snores, she
gave a scream and woke up
Charles. With the utmost non-
chalance he placed the wig on
his head and bent to kiss her
hand. "Pray forgive me, sweet-
ing," he murmured, .silkily, "but
I was so hot."
Catherine, who adored her
playboy husband, smiled de-
murely, resettled him in the
chairand herself removed the
wig. Tenderly she wiped the
perspiration from his bald head.
After that when in her company,
he always took off his wig for
comfort.
Baldness can bring trouble
with the fair sex, though, as
Louis VII of France found to
his cost, After his marriage with
fascinating young Duchess
Eleanor, he shaved off all his
hair and .his beard.
When she saw his shorn head
and face she was so appalled
that never again would she live
with him. While he was away
on a crusade, she stayed behind
in an eastern castle and had a
passionate affair with the hand-
some, curly-haired Emir Sala-
din.
When her husband heard the
news of her revenge, he divorced
her.
It didn't worry her, though.
Soon afterwards she married
Henry II of England, who had
a normal head of hair.
In the eleventh century, Henry
I of France was so sorry for all
the trouble he had caueed by
plundering other people's prop-
erties that he asked a priest to
shear off all his hair publicly
in the village church. His shorn
head didn't prevent him from
wooing a lovely Russian prin-
cess and marrying her.
When one of the vainest men
in history, Louis XIV, lost his
hair, he thought it was a trage-
dy and vowed that no one should
ever see his bald head except
his personal barber.
Late at night and again early
in the morning the barber would
hurry along to the king's apart-
ment and the royal wig was
passed through the closed cur-
tains of Louis' great four-poster
bed.
Even the barber was only al-
lowed to see the King's head
occasionally when he was per-
mitted to enter through the cur-
tains with a basin to freshen up
the scalp with perfume.
Every afternoon Louis saunt-
ered forth to call on his mistress
with his head covered in a fine
golden curly wig to remind him
Banned All Mirpers_
of his. youth, when he was known
as the Sun King,
Among the world's most taw!.
noting women three at least were
bald. The great Elizabeth I had
no hair by the time she was,
middle-aged.
ger red hair had been her
pride and joy, and after she lost
it she never looked in a mirror
again. Mirrors, in fact, were ban-
ned from the Court.
She consoled herself with over
seventy wigs of various shades.
One was a bright green silk.
Like Louis, no one was ever
allowed to see her bald except
her personal maid.
Each night her bare head was
covered up with an elaborate
nightcap.
Mary Queen of Scots is a most
romantic name in history. This ,
beautiful bewitching Queen was
loved by many men, who risked
their lives for her sake, Yet she,
too. became bald.
After eighteen years as a
prisoner in England, her death
warrant was signed by Eliza-
beth. A silent crowd gathered
outside Fotheringay Castle to
witness the execution of the
tragic queen.
Her lovely head was laid on
the block and the axe fell. When
the executioner grimly help up
the severed head, a gasp of
horror came from the crowd as
Mary's wig fell off to reveal
the bald head beneath.
A similar incident occurred
years later. Marie Antoinette,
another charmer, lost her hair
some time after her manage to
Louis XVI of France.
It was kept a secret, and she
wore huge, elaborately-styled
wigs. During the French Revo-
lution, she was seized with her
husband and fainily, and thrown
in, prison. Her wig was removed
and much rude laughter then
came from the men who guarded
her.
Finally, they allowed her to
wear a plain white mob cap,
When they told her that she was
to be taken to the scaffold in
an open cart through the streets
of Paris, she asked for a veil
to cover her head. This was
refused, but she was allowed to
keep her cap on. Just before
placing her head on the block
she removed the cap to the roars
crowd.
of callous laughter from the
Breaks Records
Shearing Sheep • ,
Any amateur sheep shearer
who ventured to compete with
Godfrey Bowen, of New Zea-
land, in a sheep shearing con-
test would be likely to look
pretty sheepish before it was
over. For Mr. Brown is the
world's champion sheep shearer.
He has sheared 456 sheep in a
nine-hour day, much to the
amazement of other experts.
His technique is designed, he
says, to put less strain on the
sheep and himself, but experts
find it hard to discover what
his technique is because the
speed of Mr. Bowen's hand de-
ceives the eye. Not long ago
farmers in Devon, where he was
exhibiting his skill, provided him
with a wild, black-faced Scot-
tish ram which had been roam-
ing Dartmoor. It took Mr. Bow-
en only 46 seconds to fleece the
animal.
An unusual shearing record
was achieved in Yorkshire some
years ago. From the shearing
of a sheep to the donning of a
finished suit made from its fleece
the total time was only 2 hours
9 minutes 46 seconds, thanks to
the co-operation of the workers
in a local clothing factory. This
performance was the reply to
one of the previous week in a
neighboring town when the
transference of wool from the
sheep's back to a man's hack in
3 hours 20 minutes was accom-
plished.
For a luncheon or .supper dish,
there's no better choice than a
salad plate. With an almost end-
less variety of foods waiting to
be assembled in eye-tempting
combinations, salad plates can
be as much" fun to do as flower
arrangements, if they are plotted
for color as well as flavor and
texture. Eggs, fish, meat, and
cheese supply ample nutriment,
and hot rolls or popovers, a
glass of milk or other cold bev-
erage, complete a satisfying meal.
STUFFED EGG SALAD PLATE
8 eggs
1 teaspoon tarragon vinegar
34 cup thick sour cream
Salt and white pepper to taste
Paprika
Salad greens
2 small carrots
1 medium cucumber
Mayonnaise
Hard-cook eggs, shell, and
halve lengthwise. Mash ' yolks
fine with vinegar, -add sour
cream, salt and pepper and beat
until silky-smooth. Filling will
be rather soft but spoon back into
egg-white halves, spreading over
entire top surface. Sprinkle with
paprika.
Arrange dry crisp greens on
four salad plates, including
chopped green scallions, if de-
sired. Place a stuffed egg white
on opposite sides of each plate
and center with wide thin slivers
of carrot and thin rounds of un-
peeled cucumber. In a lettuce
cup, place mayonnaise for use
with vegetables.
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CHICKEN SALAD PLATE
To finely chopped chicken, add
a few chopped toasted almonds,
some diced ripe olives and a bit
of pimento before combining
with Mayonnaise. On each salad
plate, arrange a bed of crisp
greens and on it place a slice
of pineapple. On the latter goes
a serving of chicken salad, top-
ped with a strip of pimento. At
the side of the plate, place two
Sweet Savour
Of Revenge
A high percentage of crime
would die out if people would
only forgo the sweet savour of
revenge, and this particularly
applies to women.
In 1937 a rich but elderly man
proposed to a young girl. Even-
tually she agreed to marry him
on condition that he made an
allowance to enable her grand-
parents to live in comfort. Hav-
ing got her safely married he
laughed at his promise, so she
knifed him and then shot her-
self. By the irony of fate, the
law decided ethat as she had lived
a little longer than he had, his
money' passed to her, and through
her to her grandparents.
Another vengeful female was
a little girl who was feeding her
father's pigs On a farm in Brit-
tany. A pig bit her and in re-
venge she set fire to the sty.
The flames spread, gutting half
the village.
A Naples beauty queen mar-
ried a notorious gangster who,
as chief of the local Cainorra
secret society, ran a profitable
street market racket. Siet months
after their marriage the gangster
was shot dead. She' believed' that
a .rival gangster ordered his
death..
A few months later, in. July,
1956, veiled and &rested in black,
she prayed at her husband's
tomb, While walking back to
the 'market square she ea* her
enemy. She called his name, and.
as he tinned she pumped bulletS,
into hint.
it is not oily worsen 'who are
Vengeful, however. A citizen of
California,received a teethe suni-
Mons Irofn the police last year.
He Considered it Was unjustified,
to he gaVe the pelted notice to
Milt the police station within 80
days—he oevned the
stalks of celery stuffed with a
mixture of blue and cream
cheese, moistened with cream.
Garnish with watermelon pickle
and ripe olives. Finger-length
sandwiches Of cream cheese and
watercress are nice to serve on
this plate.
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COLD CUTS MOLD WITH
O
1 cup finely chopped bologna,
P
pressed ham or a mixture of
cold
cuts
TATO SALAD
2 cups tomato juice
1 package lime gelatin
1 steaausepeoon Worcestershire
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Vs teaspoon paprika
eee cup _finely cut celery
lee cup finely cut scallions
Heat tomato juice to boiling
point, pour over lime gelatin and
stir until. dissolved. Add Worces-
tershire, lemon juice and pap-
rika, also salt and pepper to
taste and chill until partially
thickened. Add chopped cold
cuts, celery and scallions. Turn
into four individual molds and
chill until firm. Unmold on salad
greens, one to each plate. Sur-
round with well-seasoned potato
salad and radish roses.
TRANSPARENT DRESSING
ee cup sugar
1 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon paprika
Ye teaspoon salt
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 cup salad oil
Mix celery seed and paprika
with sugar and salt and combine
with lemon juice. Add oil very
slowly, beating constantly. The
mixture will be thick when all
the oil has been added. Store
any leftover dressing in a cover-
ed container in the refrigerator.
Not A Thing Was
Taken For Granted
There is nothing casual —
nothing taken for granted --
about the planning for a royal
visit. No TV spectacular was
ever timed, rehearsed, and dia-
gramed with more split-second
predision.
There has been a complete
run-through of the arrival of
Queen Elizabeth II and. Prince
Philip at the airport — with
stand-ins for the Queen, the
Prince, President Eisenhower,
and Other officials.
The press has been briefed as
to where reporters and camera-
men may and may not be. Even
the four official hostesses at
banquets to be given for the
royal couple have conferred on
menus to avoid a diet of English
roast beef or other culinary
duplications.
The dress rehearsal at the air-
port left nothing to chance. The
entire arrival was simulated.
Approach Of the Columbine II
with the royal party was an-
nounced. The "Welcoming corn,
inittee" took its place.
"The assumed time is now
1115 hours," boomed a loud-
speaker, "the Colunthine is stop-
ped, the portable stairway is. In
place and the door Is open. The
President is at the foot of the
stairway."
The President's stand-in 'step-
ped forward. The fierier guard,
flags whipped in the breeze,
straightened to rigid attention.
'The Queen's starid4n, Mrs. tie:.
vid. MUirliead, wife of the First
Secretary of the British Embassy,
elOWly walked by with "the
President:"
Mrs. 'IVIttirhead was chosen for
the part betatite she is said to
Walk eXactly like the Queen.
In a dress'rehearsal, the Queen's
pace is all important. Everye
thing is timed aCcordingly.
Even the position to be taken
by VaricinS VIP's Was tape rheas,
tired off ift Atli/ailed. The plat=
fani Which the President and
the royal couple would mount
for the broadcast, televised
greeting ceremony was tried out
for size.
From this diagram, complete
with minute instructions, is de-
veloped like a script. Come the
day, the hour — lights, camera,
cannons; the show is on!
For the press and photograph-
ers a 22-page set of mimeograph-
ed instructions was issued — and
explained in a background brief-
ing by the President's Press
Press secretary, James Hegerty.
For the press, too, there are
diagrams showing where report-
ers and cameramen might stand;
where press buses may be board-
ed; where they will unload; also
a precise time schedule showing
where the royal party will be at
every moment during public
appearances.
As for Her Majesty, there is
no doubt that even she had been
briefed in advance, not only
with regard to her own lines,
but as what to expect all along
the way. Royalty does not like
to be surprised. In the focus of
television cameras, with the eyes
of hundreds of reporters watch-
ing her every move, a Queen
must be letter perfect, writes
Josephine Ripley in The Chris-
tian Science Monitor.
But a Queen, after all, has lots
of help! Such as two ladies-in-
waiting, four secretaries, a trees-
urer, four maids, two detectives,
two stenographers, three foot-
men, a hairdresser, not to men-
tion the royal party's two tons
of luggage, with caskets of fabu-
lous jewels, including three or
four tiaras — all valued at more
than $5,000,000.
The Queen's wardrobe has
been catalogued for each occa-
sion down to the smallest ac-
cessory. Each outfit has been
Faisal II.
King of Iraq
paCked separately to two!, con-
fusion, for IIer Majesty has to
make as. many quick changes of .
costume during her Canadian-
American tour as an actress.
Everything that the Queen
wears will be subject to closest
scrutiny and described in detail -
across the land, ,But nothing is
more symbolic of royalty than
a real tiara. For it is, after all,
the lovely "trade-mark" of
royalty, Probably ne crowned
4.1d in the world today has a
more Stunning collection of tiaras
than Queen Elizabeth II.
One is fashioned entirely of
diamonds, combining the cross
of St. George with the rose of
England, the thistle of Scotland
and the shamrock of Ireland.
Another, known as the Russian
fringe tiara, is the lightest and
most comfortable of all, It is of
simple design and encrusted with
The most elaborate is known
as the "Russian circles" because
of its design of interlocking
circles of diamonds. It may be
embellished with large drop
pearls or emeralds and is valued
at $300,000. The Queen possesses
still another which she calls
"Granny's tiara" — a gift from
Queen Mary at the time of Her
Majesty's marriage to Prince
Fhil Plans for the royal visit were
in striking contrast to the less
elaborate preparations for the
Queen Mother on her "unofficial"
visit to Washington • and Wil-
liamsburg some years ago. On
that occasion, the charming
Queen Mother strolled up the
Duke of Gloucester Street with
tourists and reporters close at
her heels. No such iformality is
permissible for a reigning
monarch.
CANADA'S HOPE —From Can
ada, the land of the maple
leaf, of the Lyceum Theatre in
London is the path traveled by
shapely Judy Welch, 21. The
lovely lass represented Canada
in the "Miss World" beauty
contest. Vital statistics, in the
usudl order, 35-22-35.
Hog-Nosed Ham
The hog-nosed snake is known
for its acting ability. By flatten-
ing its head and neck by hissing,
it looks and acts as ferocious
as a cobra. No amount of pro-
voking will induce this Snake to
bite. Instead, if he fails to scare
you, he'll resort to playing dead.
Rolling .over on his back, this
snake will remain lifeless for
long periods of time. No amount
of handling will induce a sign
of life. He overacts his part,
however. If your turn him over
on his abdomen, this hog-nosed
viperoo will immediately roll
over on his back!.
ISSUE — 44 1957
Mitiht FiliNdt 64 TOP—teverly. Yaweil, 'a paralysis- r victi iii for
11 years signals. for a. left turn as she. drives the custom-made:
tar, with...: fringe on top, given to .her by friends and nelohbors,..
the Vehicle has .a hydraulic lift which Beverly operates with
a button. Orestol The ear slants down in bock, Beverly rolls
In lit her wheel Aare arid the car settles. a.gefin,. the liftlif car
Cara' ,' is powered' with a battery.
'GODFATHER. OHiLitf.--tokitig en the role of godfather; Prinen.
f'hilite assists at 'the .6110601 .g of the baby daughter of his.
niece; Princess dill/fine( of Hesse- wife. of .PYIn.de .AliOlrei of
YUgOtitiVid, The baby, bend' ilfted' from the font by Prince
Philip, was given` the name of Wite- The immersion
in fant WOe, .reeideited, three tiniee. quick esuccession at
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taveli-
terbian Orthodox Church Lond n.